If it were possible to keep tabs on these wanderers, their "flying hours" probably would far exceed the "ground" ones. On their sharp strong wings they come the length of two continents, spend two months of family life in the Arctic and drive back to far Argentina.
They are less demonstrative than other Sandpipers during the courting season, attending strictly to their domestic duties. Extremely hardy, they have been noted feeding on the ice of northern lakes and on the Andes in Chile at an altitude of 10,000 feet.
North and South America.